PASSAIC — A city man was sentenced Friday to 118 years in prison for the June 20, 2015, murders of a Paterson woman and a Garfield man, as well as another 18 years for his attempted murder of a second Garfield man, the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office reported.

On Jan. 26, a Passaic County jury found Luis Delcarmen, 27, of Passaic guilty on two counts of murder in the first degree and attempted murder, Passaic County Prosecutor Camelia M. Valdes said in an Aug. 10 press release.

It took the jury five hours to determine that Delcarmen was guilty of killing Denisse Gonzalez, 22, of Paterson, and Enpaul Cantero, 24, of Garfield, on June 20, 2015.

The jury also determined that Delcarmen was guilty of trying to kill another 24-year-old man from Garfield as well as first-degree robbery, second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and second-degree unlawful possession of a weapon.

Senior Assistant Prosecutor Eileen M. Kane prosecuted and was able from surveillance video to prove that on June 20, Delcarmen approached the victims, who had been on the sidewalk in front of the now-defunct nightclub Cloud 9 Lounge, at 4 Market St. in Passaic, Prosecutor's Office officials said.

"Passaic police were able to view on a computer screen the surveillance video from outside of Cloud 9, which captured the crimes," Kane said. "They recognized Mr. Delcarmen from the community."

Also, a lay witness recognized Delcarmen when he viewed the video, she said.

Delcarmen approached Cantero and shot him at close range before pulling a large Cuban-link chain from his neck, officials said.

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The evidence further demonstrated that the defendant next shot the surviving victim, causing him a life-threatening injury before the bullet exited his body and struck Gonzalez, who had been standing behind the victim, in the heart, killing her.

Kane noted that when police located Delcarmen later that day in a friend's apartment, they found the sneakers worn by the killer as shown in the video, along with the shirt that Delcarmen was wearing in the video shortly before the crimes.

Prosecutors said Delcarmen also fired another shot toward a group of Cloud 9 patrons who were on the sidewalk before he fled from the scene.

Valdes noted that on Friday, Superior Court Judge Marybel Mercado-Ramirez sentenced Delcarmen to 50 years of incarceration for Cantero's murder and a consecutive sentence of 50 years for Gonzalez's.

The judge also sentenced Delcarmen to a consecutive sentence of 18 years for the attempted murder of the surviving victim.

In addition, the judge imposed a concurrent 16-year sentence on the robbery charge and a concurrent 10-year sentence with a five-year parole disqualifier on the charge of unlawful possession of a weapon, according to the Prosecutor's Office.

The other charges on which Delcarmen was convicted in this case were merged for purposes of sentencing.

Pursuant to the No Early Release Act, Delcarmen will have to serve 85 percent of the 118-year sentence before he is eligible for parole.